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Mid-term test – 5th grade

1. Listen and complete the following sentences:

a. Plastic Arts involves what you can do ________________________________________________.
b. Along history, painting has developed the most distinctive style ____________________________.
c. For centuries, painting was considered a realistic or mimetic __________________________ of the outer world.
d. Today, painting is no longer an imitative representation ________________________________.

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2. Read the article “More about Painting” and answer the questions:

More about Painting

The painter creates his own shapes and patterns, leaving reality aside. Graphisms, colours and lines are the star attraction,
because of their plastic values, in the artistic vanguards: Abstraction, Cubism, Neoplasticism, Informalism, Minimal Art.

Colour

Along history, artists have been concerned about colour, its aesthetics and the
harmonies and symbols it evokes. During the Italian Renaissance, lines prevailed over
colours for the building of shapes. In the Baroque period, shape was built by light and
colour. Impressionist painters left shapes aside in order to study the effects produced
by the reflection of light on actual colours. In the 20th century, certain vanguards
consider colour as a fundamental element in their artistic expressions.

Space

Space represents depth in relation to flat or volumetric objects. Planes, lateral and
central distributions, transparencies and superpositions are part of the bidimensional
spatial representation. The concept of perspective appeared in the 15 th century; it
intends to represent tridimensional images on a surface.

1. Does a Neoplasticist painter paint reality in his paintings?

2. What is important when we talk about colour?
3. How has the concept of colour changed along history? Explain.
4. When did the idea of perspective appear?
5. What do we understand by “space”?
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3. Read the text again, and complete the sentences with the appropriate information
1. In Cubism, for example, the focus is on __________________________________________.
2. During the Renaissance, ___________________________________ were not so important.
3. Impressionist painters didn’t pay attention to _____________________________________.
4. Colour became a _____________________________________________ in the 20th century.
5. Bidimensional spatial representation involve ______________________________________.
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4. Vocabulary. Look for the corresponding noun in the text
1. Plastic ______________________________
2. Actual ______________________________
3. Artistic _____________________________
4. Flat _________________________________
5. Lateral______________________________
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5 Grammar. Are these sentences Active or Passive? Change them into Passive Voice
1. Plastic Arts are defined in terms of what you can do with your hands._______________________
2. Artists turn different materials into works of art. ________________________
3. Painting was considered a realistic or mimetic representation of the outer world. ___________
4. A portrait depicts the character’s personality. ______________
5. Ramón Gómez Cornet painted people at work. ______________
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6. Grammar. Complete this text with the correct conjugation of the verb

Posters
Illustrated posters ______________________ (use) in political, cultural, commercial fields. A poster is a means of
communication that ______________________ (aim) at shocking, seducing, informing.

It _____________________ (appear) massively in European cities like Paris or London in the 19 th century. In 1889,
Cheret, a French illustrator, ____________________ (create) a new branch of art applied to commercial and
industrial printing. He said that he poster was not a painting but a new means to an end. That end was the good, clear
and expressive transmission of news between the shopkeeper and the public.

Since then, posters ____________________ (become) widely used both in television and on the streets as they are
great to attract the public.

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7. Writing. Write your comments about this painting taking into account the information on the text and your
personal opinion about it.

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